Euronews

Relatives and friends have gathered at a school gym-turned-makeshift-morgue to mourn the victims of a nightclub fire in southern Brazil.

It is thought stage fireworks set off a blaze inside the Kiss nightclub in Santa Maria.

Those inside, the majority of them young people, died from asphyxiation or from being trampled.

Latest reports suggest at least 230 have been killed. Those who survived managed to find the emergency exits.

“You never think this will happen to anyone you know,” said one man. “I have seen friends being buried today. I saw two brothers being buried and I have just found out that another one of my friends is among those who died.”

Another man spoke of the sadness of losing his son. “My son was full of life,” he told reporters, “and full of health at 27 years old.”